Out of the Dust- Hesse Home of the Brave- Applegate Who Killed Mr. Chippendale - Glenn Aleutian Sparrow - Karen Hesse
Witness - Karen Hesse
Locomotion - Jacqueline Woodson 42 Miles - Zimmer
Beanball - Fehler
Becoming Billie Holiday - Weatherford
Burned - Hopkins
Identical - Hopkins Impulse - Hopkins
Song of the Sparrow - Sandell
Everything is Fine - Ellis
Heartbeat by Sharon creech
Love that Dog. Sharon Creech
Bronx Masquerade. Nikki Grimes
Loose Threads. Lorie Ann Grover.
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey. Margaret Peterson Haddix
Out of the Dust. Karen Hesse
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. Ron Koertge
heaven Loos a Lot like the Mall. Wendy Mass
I heart you, You haunt me. Lisa Schroeder.
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Sonya Sones.
What My Girlfirend Doesn't Know. Sonya Sones.
Runaway. Wendelin Van Draanen.
42 Miles. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
Reading for the Sun. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
Shark Girl. Kelly Bingham
Pieces of Georgia Jennifer Bryant.
Al the Broken Pieces - Burg
Call Me Maria - Cofer
Hate taht Cat - Creech
This is What I Did - Ellis
Grover - On Pointe
Hemphill - things Left Unsaid.
Hopkins - Identical
Myers - Street Love
Myers - Amirl & Odette: a love story
Rylant - God went to Beauty School
Schroeder - Far from You
Sones - What my mother doesn't know
Testa - Becoming Joe DiMaggio
Turner - Hard Hit
Woodson - Locomotion
Wolff - This Full House
Stop Pretending: What Happened When my Big Sister Went Crazy - Sones
In a story based on real events, and told in poems, Sones explores what happened and how she reacted when her adored older sister suddenly began scraming and hearing voices in her head, and was ultimately hospitalized.
Pieces of Georgia
By Jen Bryant
This slight novel tells of near 13-year-old Georgia, still grieving the loss of her mother six years before. An anonymous benefactor gives her a museum membership, hoping that her love of art will be the cure for her sadness. Georgia's own journal entries are composed in free verse
Keesha's House By Helen Frost
At-risk teenagers congregate at a safe house, and we gradually learn what brought each of them there—an unplanned pregnancy, harassment about sexual orientation, and an unloving foster parent. A complicated poetic format (sestinas) doesn't make for a complicated read—the plot is equal to the poetry.
Crank By Ellen Hopkins
Hopkins has become the leading author of novels in verse, mainly due to her gritty, unflinching subject matter.Crank, her first novel, deals with Kristina/Bree and her addiction to crystal meth.
Street Love By Walter Dean Myers
Using rap-tinged poetry, Myers tells a tale of star-crossed lovers in the inner city.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies By Sonya Sones
When Ruby's mother dies, she must move to California to live with her movie-star father, who she doesn't really know. Though, she's determined to hate her rich famous father and she misses her old life in Boston, she comes to accept her new life.
Make Lemonade By Virginia Euwer Woolf
Studious LaVaughn, 14, decides to earn extra money by babysitting for a child whose mother, Jolly, is only a bit older than LaVaughn herself. LaVaughn gradually comes to respect Jolly and eventually the two become friends.
Out of the Dust- Hesse
Home of the Brave- Applegate
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale - Glenn
Aleutian Sparrow - Karen Hesse
Witness - Karen Hesse
Locomotion - Jacqueline Woodson
42 Miles - Zimmer
Beanball - Fehler
Becoming Billie Holiday - Weatherford
Burned - Hopkins
Identical - Hopkins
Impulse - Hopkins
Song of the Sparrow - Sandell
Everything is Fine - Ellis
Heartbeat by Sharon creech
Love that Dog. Sharon Creech
Bronx Masquerade. Nikki Grimes
Loose Threads. Lorie Ann Grover.
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey. Margaret Peterson Haddix
Out of the Dust. Karen Hesse
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. Ron Koertge
heaven Loos a Lot like the Mall. Wendy Mass
I heart you, You haunt me. Lisa Schroeder.
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Sonya Sones.
What My Girlfirend Doesn't Know. Sonya Sones.
Runaway. Wendelin Van Draanen.
42 Miles. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
Reading for the Sun. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer.
Shark Girl. Kelly Bingham
Pieces of Georgia Jennifer Bryant.
Al the Broken Pieces - Burg
Call Me Maria - Cofer
Hate taht Cat - Creech
This is What I Did - Ellis
Grover - On Pointe
Hemphill - things Left Unsaid.
Hopkins - Identical
Myers - Street Love
Myers - Amirl & Odette: a love story
Rylant - God went to Beauty School
Schroeder - Far from You
Sones - What my mother doesn't know
Testa - Becoming Joe DiMaggio
Turner - Hard Hit
Woodson - Locomotion
Wolff - This Full House
Stop Pretending: What Happened When my Big Sister Went Crazy - Sones
In a story based on real events, and told in poems, Sones explores what happened and how she reacted when her adored older sister suddenly began scraming and hearing voices in her head, and was ultimately hospitalized.
Pieces of Georgia
By Jen Bryant
This slight novel tells of near 13-year-old Georgia, still grieving the loss of her mother six years before. An anonymous benefactor gives her a museum membership, hoping that her love of art will be the cure for her sadness. Georgia's own journal entries are composed in free verse
Keesha's House
By Helen Frost
At-risk teenagers congregate at a safe house, and we gradually learn what brought each of them there—an unplanned pregnancy, harassment about sexual orientation, and an unloving foster parent. A complicated poetic format (sestinas) doesn't make for a complicated read—the plot is equal to the poetry.
Crank
By Ellen Hopkins
Hopkins has become the leading author of novels in verse, mainly due to her gritty, unflinching subject matter.Crank, her first novel, deals with Kristina/Bree and her addiction to crystal meth.
Street Love
By Walter Dean Myers
Using rap-tinged poetry, Myers tells a tale of star-crossed lovers in the inner city.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
By Sonya Sones
When Ruby's mother dies, she must move to California to live with her movie-star father, who she doesn't really know. Though, she's determined to hate her rich famous father and she misses her old life in Boston, she comes to accept her new life.
Make Lemonade
By Virginia Euwer Woolf
Studious LaVaughn, 14, decides to earn extra money by babysitting for a child whose mother, Jolly, is only a bit older than LaVaughn herself. LaVaughn gradually comes to respect Jolly and eventually the two become friends.